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Hi
My name is James Louviere.
Here is my Impossible Dream. I hope you will dream it with me, and share my passion, and become a part of my future.
At age 72, I am struggling to pay my bills, I have difficulty walking, and I am unable to hear high pitched sounds, which means I don’t understand what people say, especially people with high voices, like most girls and women. So far, that's not very impressive, is it?
Yet I am dreaming of moving the entire human race to a better way of life, and leaving a massivly positive legacy for those to be born in the future.
I dream of moving everyone to be kinder, more responsible, more tolerant, more forgiving.
I dream of moving people and whole nations to treat Earth as a home, a precious gift, a jewel in the heavens.
All this for one sweet purpose: To create a decent legacy for children to be born in succeeding generations.
I call those children the WAUG Kids, the “What About Us? Generation” of young people born in the next twenty, forty, eighty, hundred years.
They are not yet born, nor even conceived. They have no voices. They can write no letters, express no hopes or desires, they cannot hound us for being negligent nor blame us, yet, for our cruelty.
Their advocates are few, their funds are nil, their “connections” generally unaware that they are going to have descendants in future times.
Why should we care about the WAUG Kids, if they don’t exist? Why did our great-great-grand parents care about us? They cared about us because they faced difficulties and wanted us to be happier, less burdened. If they were ill, they wished for remedies that would spare us the same illness.
If they were enslaved, persecuted, victimized by genocidal tyrants, they wanted us to be free.
If they were poor, they wanted to create the means for us to become comfortable and secure.
What about this generation? This generation, those of us among the currently “alive” people who can do something about the future of the Earth and its inhabitants, human and non-human, have but a fleeting moment in the course of all time to do something positive for future ages.
This time, this early decade of the twenty-first century, may be much more critical than any that have come before.
Why? Look at the current world, and you’ll see that enormous problems are as yet unsolved. Terrorism, poverty, thirst and starvation beset people on whole continents. The problems we see escalating today are not even recognized by huge populations. Even highly educated people turn their backs as millions starve in Africa, as billions are desperate for freedom and stability, and more and more abuse is heaped upon the land, sea and air of our home planet.
I am no saint, no prophet, no Gandhi or Siddhartha or Messiah. I am a poor old dreamer. But I have the means at my disposal, the words and technology to reach out across mountains and oceans and call for a world-wide population of talented and loving artists to join me in a movement that can help fix our problems and pass on to the children of following decades – or centuries? – a world that’s more comfortable, fair and livable than the one we currently call “real.”
My chosen medium is music – for melody and harmony and rhythm – and the beautiful grace of the dancers and their thrilling costumes moving with the music – pierce through all barriers and move the hearts and minds of people regardless of their language and condition in life. Emperors and kings as well as beggars and infants all respond to music.
I am only an amateur musician, but even my songs are out there on YouTube, moving a handful of viewers to be more positive and loving. Imagine if musicians from every culture and every political faction were to create music that was pure and positive and beautiful!
I will create a worldwide network of musicians who are pledged to work together with others of like mind to produce the music that will change the world.
My community of musicians will not exclude or offend or isolate others by promoting this or that particular “universal system” of belief or behavior. They will not try to convert people to a particular “-ism” or faction. Rather, they will emphasize only the universal value of the Golden Rule:
· Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
· Treat your planet as you would want others to treat your own home.
If you are a musician of any kind, a composer, songwriter, instrumentalist, singer, dancer, designer, producer, technician, choreographer, manager or marketer, or “angel” (one who provides the funds to support the artists), please contact me at james@bostonmusicianscoop.com, a website/blog I’ve created, to express your enthusiasm for my project, to volunteer to help with it, or to provide possible funding. I am only a simple human being, but the Spirit that creates all of us resides in me and prompts me to step forward.
If you are not a musician, I welcome you as a fellow human being, a brother or sister, in the Human Family, one who is, for our fleeting time, able to help create a decent legacy for the children of the future by whatever means you have.
I am waiting to hear from you. The most responses I’ve ever gotten to anything I’ve ever done was to an article I published in The Science Teacher in February, 1988. It’s been replicated thousands and thousands of times with the permission of the National Science Teachers Association. Because of the nature of my new dream, I hope that the impact will be much greater, with many more responses by e-mail, and many offers of help.
James P. Louviere
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